How can homeopathy help me to stop smoking?
There are many companies and clinics offering herbal treatments, or homeopathy, to stop smoking. Sometimes that's often combined even with nutritional supplements. Of course we know that people who've smoked for a long time, for many years and many decades, have some nutritional deficits from their cigarette smoking, largely because the metabolism and detoxification of all of the chemicals that goes into the body taxes the liver and other systems. So I would encourage someone to eat well, talk to a nutritionist, and talk to someone who really understands how to take a good assessment of their own health. In order to use homeopathy to quit smoking, you would want to look carefully at what was being offered and whether you were also getting good behavioural counselling, having an opportunity to use medications, if they were appropriate for you, or you felt that nicotine replacement, bupropion and varenicline, or something that would contraindicate it for some reason. And I would speak with someone who was really very skilled in good behavioural therapy, because homeopathy by itself has never been studied to be proven as effective in helping people stop smoking, without the adjuncts around it that we know have to change in order to help someone break up the strength and the power of this addiction on the human brain.
